Word: mirbach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reds assassinated Count von Mirbach, first German Ambassador to Soviet Russia, in 1918. Some Nazi fanatic may well take offense at the Jew whom Joseph Stalin is sending to Berlin this week-short, dark, wiry Comrade Jacques Suritz. In Afghanistan they remember Jacques Suritz well. He went out from Moscow to Kabul more than a decade ago. He greased the right palms so adroitly that the British Empire's influence in Afghanistan was threatened and ex-King Amanullah today is said to blame Jacques Suritz for having started the seven-year vortex of intrigue which finally sent His Majesty...